Funerals for 5 kids, 2 teachers shot at Sandy Hill Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut

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Benjamin Wheeler was the son of New York art director David Cole, and Francine Wheeler, a singer-songwriter and music teacher, according to the New York Post.
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Like most first graders, 6-year-old Jesse Lewis was excited for the holidays.  He couldn't wait to go to school on Friday because they were making gingerbread houses.
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Catherine Hubbard was also only 6. In a statement her family wrote, "we ask that you continue to pray for us and the other families who have experienced loss in this tragedy."
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30-year-old Lauren Rousseau had just become a permanent substitute teacher at Sandy Hook in November. Her mother said "she wanted to be a teacher from before she even went to kindergarten. We take comfort in knowing that she achieved that …
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Grace McDonnell was 7. Her family said "our daughter Grace was the love and light of our family. Words cannot adequately express our sense of loss."
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Rachel Davino had worked at Sandy Hook for a little more than a week. Anne Marie Murphy was a teacher. Police told her parents, Hugh and Alice McGowan, that Murphy helped shield some of her students from the gunman’s bullets.
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6-year-old Olivia Engel loved school, was good at math and reading. Nothing was off limits for the little girl whose favorite colors were pink and purple.
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Posted: 12/20/2012
Last Updated: 154 days ago

NEWTOWN, Conn. - More funerals and a memorial service are scheduled to be held in Connecticut and New York for students and teachers killed by a gunman at an elementary school.

Funerals are scheduled Thursday in Connecticut for 7-year-old Grace McDonnell and 6-year-olds Benjamin Andrew Wheeler, Catherine Violet Hubbard, Jesse Lewis and Allison Wyatt.

A funeral will be held Thursday morning in Katonah, N.Y., for teacher Anne Marie Murphy.

A memorial service has been scheduled for teacher Lauren Gabrielle Rousseau.

In addition, the families of 6-year-old Olivia Rose Engel and behavioral therapist Rachel Marie D'Avino have calling hours Thursday.

At least nine funerals and wakes were held Wednesday, and more are planned.

Gunman Adam Lanza burst into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., last Friday, killing 20 children and six adults before committing suicide.

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